Richard Beard (1801-1885)

INDIVIDUAL PORTRAITS OF GENTLEMEN & A WOMAN, c.1840s, monochromatic ninth plate daguerreotype portraits, with varying condition issues affecting the plates, each housed in a Beard Patentee black lacquered wall hanging frames, two examples with Beard's Red London Studios label affixed verso, and one example with manuscript title of sitter; Thomas Battery, Taken in York September 1844, verso, potentially taken by Samuel Walker.

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